Descriptions

This project was based upon concepts presented in course
readings related to the processes of cultural change (e.g.,
acculturation and cultural authentication). In particular, the
project asked students to consider the cross-cultural design
process presented by Lin (2007) in her scholarly article titled,
“Transforming Taiwan aboriginal cultural features into
modern product design: A case study of a cross-cultural
product design model.”The argument presented by Lin is that
products with cultural features enhance product value and
have more global market value and, thus, one ideally needs to
achieve all three proposed layers of design to achieve
successful cross-cultural design.